The big wedding day

November 29, 2019
What a beautiful day!  We woke up to a tornado watch, the sky was dark and the rain was pouring.  Early in the morning James climbed in bed with Annie and Hannah, they were giggling and having one last memory of single life before James is married.  He is such a great brother to all his sisters. Then Grant gave James a blessing. It was such a calm morning together.  We sat on the couch and talked about his future then everyone got dressed and we played soft music throughout the house. It was a really lovely morning. It was raining as we went into the Gilbert Temple. Brother Bradshaw was the Sealer. He always does a beautiful job. The spirit was so perfect during the sealing ordinance. When we came out of the Temple to sun was shining and the sky was bright with big fluffy clouds. James is a wonderful young man and he married a wonderful girl.

Family Pictures 2019

 Family Pictures November 2019

Taken the Sunday before James and Meg were married - November 24

 Grant Boyd-27, Katie -26, Annie -17, Grant - 52, Jill- 47, Hannah - 12, Meg - 23, James - 22

I love my family! We are thrilled to have Meg marry James and be apart of our family.

Hannah's 10th birthday!

 Hannah decided this year she would like to take her cousin Gloria to the American Girl store and restaurant for her 10th birthday! They were so excited all week. Niki said Gloria talked about Hannah's party all week.  Hannah was counting the days down and it was taking a long time to get her. Finally Saturday came, we picked Gloria up at her house and the 3 of us drove to Scottsdale to have an American Girl adventure. We had about an hour to look around the store before our reservation at 2:45 at the restaurant. I got some cute pictures of the girls enjoying all the dolls.  

 I told the girls they could pick an outfit out for their dolls. They both picked Mary Ellen's cooking outfit! Now their dolls can be twins!

 At the restaurant our dolls got to sit up to the table! The girls order everything they wanted off the menu. Shakes, fruit fondue, macaroni and cheese, a hamburger, berry sorbet, & 3 mini cones dipped in sprinkles!  We sat around waiting for our food to come and played a question game that was at the table. One question was: If you could meet anyone living or dead, who would it be? Hannah immediately answered, "Her grandma Coon."  Grandma Coon passed away when Katie was 1 year old. Both Hannah and Gloria love Grandpa Coon~ I thought it was so sweet and tender that Hannah wanted to meet her.

 At the end of the day we can say they were happy girls! 

Back track to Thanksgiving 2016

 Annie, Hannah, Morgan, Lila

 Tate, Porter, Sam, Dawson, Gage, Carson

 Grant & Jill, Grant & Katie, Jenny & Rick

 Carson and Tate helping Grandpa with the dishes after dinner.

Grandma Dayley's surprise to the girls!

 Grandma Dayley has been working for so many years to finish these quilts. Finally the day arrived. We had Grandma & Grandpa over for dinner with Katie & Grant so she could give them their quilts. They are all hand quilted and made with lots of love.  She wrote a store about how each quilt came to be made and the story behind them. Made a little pocket on the back of the quilt and slipped the story inside. So they will never forget their Grandma.

 Grandma Dayley - 71

Katie Boyd - 23

 Grandma Dayley - 71

Annie Coon - 14

 Grandma Dayley -71

Hannah Coon - 9